2006 Wendy Wasserstein, American Playwright
2004 Peter Barnes, English Playwright
2004 Jerome Lawrence, American Playwright
2003 Jack Gelber, American Playwright
2003 Paul Zindel, playwright/YA author, The Effects of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, dies at 66
2002 John B. Keane, Irish Playwright
2001 Anthony Shaffer, playwright, Sleuth, dies at 75
2001 Jason Miller, playwright/actor, That Championship Season, dies at 62
1997 Robert Pinget, novelist/Playwright, dies at 78
1996 George Byatt, playwright, dies at 73
1996 Jack Popplewell, composer/playwright, dies at 87
1996 W Gordon Smith, playwright, dies at 67
1996 Frank Ulrich Marcus, playwright/critic, dies at 68
1996 Steve Tesich, screenwriter/playwright, dies at 53
1996 Lonne Elder, playwright/screenwriter, dies at 69
1996 Colin Morris, playwright/documentary filmmaker, dies at 80
1996 Gerald Savory, actor playwright/TV producer (3 Weeks), dies at 86
1995 Vladimir Skutina, writer playwright/journalist, dies at 64
1995 Joseph Tomelty, actor and playwright (Bedevilled, Moby Dick), dies at 84
1995 Sidney Kingslei, playwright, dies at 88
1995 Sidney Kingsley, U.S. playwright (Pulitzer prize 1934), dies at 88
1995 Albert Maurice Hackett, playwright/screenwriter, dies at 95
1995 Robert Bolt, British playwright (Doctor Zhivago, Bounty), dies at 70
1995 Michael Vincent Gazzo, U.S. actor and playwright (Godfather 2), dies at 71
1995 Robert Bolt, British Playwright
1995 George Abbott, playwright/actor/producer (Damn Yankees), dies at 105
1995 Ken Hill, playwright/director, dies at 57
1995 Peter Ambrose Cyprian Luke, playwright, dies at 75
1995 Karl Guttmann, Austrian/Dutch playwright/director (Pinter), dies at 81
1994 John James Osborne, playwright, dies at 65
1994 John Osborne, English playwright (Entertainer, Luther), dies at 65
1994 Julio Ramon Ribeyro, Peruvian playwright, dies at 66
1994 Leonid Leonov, Russian playwright (Russky Lesson), dies at 95
1994 Leonid Maksimovich Leonov, novelist/Playwright, dies at 94
1994 Eugene Ionesco, playwright (Rhinoceros, Bald Soprano), dies at 84
1994 Abdelkader Alloula, Algerian playwright, murdered
1994 Werner Schwab, Austrian playwright (Female Presidents), dies at 35
1993 Mia Meijer, Dutch playwright/director (Machine Child), dies
1992 Frederick Combs, playwright/director, dies of AIDS at 57
1992 Bill Elverman, playwright/actor (After Hours), dies at 40
1992 William JF "Bill" Naughton, Irish/Brit playwright (Alfie), dies at 81
1991 Donald Churchill, playwright, dies of heart attack at 60
1991 Archie N Menzies, playwright/composer (Under Your Hat), dies at 87
1991 Tom Eyen, playwright (Dreamgirls), dies of cardiac arrest at 50
1991 Peter T Thwaites, British brig-gen/playwright (Love or money), dies
1988 Edward Chodorov, playwright/director (Louis Pasteur), dies at 84
1988 Errol John, playwright, dies at 63
1988 Mikha'il Na'imah, Lebanese playwright, dies at 99
1987 Jean Anouilh, French playwright (Ball of the Voleurs), dies at 77
1986 Jean Genˆt, French, playwright (Lesson Negres), dies at 75
1985 Ricardo Bacchelli, playwright and poet (Il malino del Po), dies at 94
1984 Lillian Hellman, playwright, (Little Foxes), dies at 79
1984 Arnold Riley, playwright/actor, dies at 88
1983 Tennessee Williams, U.S. playwright (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), dies at 71
1982 Peter Weiss, German playwright (Marat-Sade), dies at 65
1980 Marc Connelly, playwright (One Minute Please), dies at 90
1979 George Seaton, American Playwright
1979 Herb Polesie, producer/playwright (20 Questions), dies at 79
1978 Hanns Johst, German Playwright
1977 Denys Amiel, French dramatist/playwright (Le mouton noir), dies at 92
1977 Carl Zuckmayer, German/Swiss/US playwright (Second Wind), dies at 80
1973 Ben van Eysselsteijn, Dutch playwright (Arid Earth), dies at 75
1973 William M Inge, U.S. playwright (Come Back Little Sheba), dies at 60
1973 Noel Coward, English playwright (Private Letters), dies at 73
1971 Charles Vildrac, Paris France, poet/playwright, dies at 88
1970 Fernand Crommelynck, Belgian playwright (Chaud et Frois), dies at 83
1970 Arthur Adamov, Russian/French playwright, dies at 61
1968 Corry Lievens, Flemish actress/playwright/dir (Blue Bird), dies at 64
1968 Howard Lindsay, U.S. playwright (State of the Union), dies at 78
1967 Joe Orton, English actor and playwright (Leaf, Murdered), dies at 34
1967 Elmer Rice, New York playwright/director/novelist, dies at 74
1967 Dirk Vansina, Flemish playwright (Sage of Kai-Roi), dies at 72
1966 Georgia BD Camp Johnson, U.S. poet/playwright, dies at 88
1966 Jo van Ammers-Kuller, Dutch playwright (Opstandigen), dies at 81
1965 Roger Vailland, French playwright (La Truite), dies at 57
1965 Ludovicus H "Lode" Baekelmans, Flemish playwright, dies at 86
1965 W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright
1965 Lorraine Hansberry, U.S. playwright, dies in New York City, dies at 34
1964 Jan Fabricius, Dutch/English playwright (Dolle Hans), dies at 93
1964 John Fabricius, playwright, dies at 55
1964 Sean O'Casey, Irish playwright (Playboy of Western World), dies at 84
1964 Ben Hecht, playwright (Child of the Century), dies at 71
1963 Clifford Odets, U.S. playwright (Golden Boy), dies at 57
1963 Herman Bouber, [Blom], actor and playwright (Bluejackets), dies at 77
1962 Robinson Jeffers, poet/playwright (Dear Judas), dies at 75
1961 George S Kaufman, playwright/dir/pulitzer prize winner, dies at 72
1961 Kjeld Abell, Danish playwright/director of Tivoli, dies at 59
1958 Roger Martin du Gard, novelist/playwright, dies
1958 Adolf Herckenrath, Flemish playwright and poet (Avondvlam), dies at 79
1958 Jeroom Verten [Jozef F Vermetten], Flemish playwright, dies at 49
1957 Sacha Guitry, actor/playwright/director (Lovers and Thieves), dies at 72
1956 Charles MacArthur, American Playwright
1955 Paul Claudel, French poet/playwright (L'otage), dies at 86
1955 Robert E. Sherwood, American Playwright
1954 Jacinto Benavente y Martinez, Spanish playwright, dies at 87
1954 Harvey Fierstein, born in Brooklyn, New York, playwright, Torch Song Trilogy, ID4
1953 Eugene O'Neill, playwright (Nobel 1936), dies in Boston at 65
1952 Beth Henley, Jackson, Mississippi, actress/playwright, Miss Firecracker
1952 Toine van Benthem, dentist/playwright/cabaret performer, Purper
1952 Ferenc Molnar, Hungarian playwright (Farkas, Tester), dies at 76
1951 Elizabeth Swados, Buffalo, New York, composer/playwright, 1972 TONY
1950 Valere-Gille, Belgian playwright (Lesson Tombeaux), dies at 83
1950 Wendy Wasserstein, American Playwright
1949 Maurice Maeterlinck, Belg playwright (Grand Fairie, Nobel 1911), dies
1949 Christopher Durang, Montclair, New Jersey, playwright/actor, Sister Mary
1948 Albert Innaurato, Philadelphia, playwright/director, Age in Soho
1947 David Mamet, Chicago, playwright/dir, Speed the Plow, House of Games
1947 Willy Russell, author/playwright, Shirley Valentine, Educating Rita
1947 Rose Tremain, novelist/playwright
1947 David Hare, playwright, Strapless, Plenty, Wetherby, Fatale
1946 Eduard Veterman, Dutch painter/playwright, dies in an auto accident
1946 Peter L de Baan, Dutch actor, director and playwright, Leonce and Lena
1946 Christopher Hampton, Azores, playwright, Oviri, Hotel du Lac
1946 David A. Stockman, American Playwright
1945 Georg Kaiser, playwright, dies at 66
1945 August Wilson, U.S., playwright, Fences, Pulitzer 1987
1945 Rudolf Varnlund, Swedish playwright (Upproret), dies at 45
1944 Joaquin Alvarez Quintero, Spanish playwright (El Patio), dies at 71
1944 George Ade, U.S. novelist/playwright (Counsel Widow), dies at 78
1943 Sam Shepard, Illinois, actor and playwright, Frances, Crimes of the Heart
1943 Rose Tremain, British novelist/playwright, Restoration
1943 Vladimir I Nemirovitch-Dantshenko, Russian playwright, dies at 84
1943 Vladimir Ivanovich Nemirovich-Danchenko, playwright/director, dies
1943 Charles Ludlam, New York City, playwright/actor, Big Easy
1942 Carl Sternheim, German playwright (Trousers, Snob), dies at 64
1942 Steve Tesich, screenwriter/playwright
1942 David K Williamson, Australian screenplay/playwright, Removalists
1942 Susan Hill, English playwright, Magic Apple Tree
1940 David Rabe, born in Dubuque Iowa, playwright, Streamers
1939 Henrica M L "Wiesje" Backer, Dutch dancer/actress/playwright
1939 Terrence McNally, St. Petersburg, Florida, playwright, Bad Habits
1939 Sidney Coe Howard, playwright (Silver Cord, Pulitzer 1925), dies at 48
1939 Alan Ayckbourn, born in London, playwright
1939 Indrid Einarsson, Iceland playwright dies at 87
1938 Vladimir M Kirshon, Russian playwright, executed at 35
1938 Serafin Alvarez Quintero, Spanish playwright (Piropos), dies at 67
1937 Tom Stoppard, born in Czechoslovakia, playwright, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern-1968 Tony
1937 James M. Barrie, British Playwright
1937 Arthur Kopit, U.S., playwright, Day Whores Came Out to Play Tennis
1937 Lanford Wilson, U.S. playwright, Hot L Baltimore
1937 John Drinkwater, English poet/playwright (Bird in Hand), dies at 54
1937 Lodewijk Boer, Dutch violinist and playwright, The Family
1937 Ken Hill, playwright/director
1936 James H "Simon" Gray, English playwright, Butley
1936 Mart Crowley, playwright, Boys in the Band
1936 June Jordan, U.S. playwright and poet, His Own Where
1936 Paul Zindel, playwright, Effects of Gamma Rays on Marigolds
1936 Alan Bleasdale, author/playwright, Are You Lonesome Tonight
1936 Ramon M del Valle-Inclan, playwright (Tirano banderas), dies at 66
1935 Ed Bullins, Philadelphia, playwright
1935 Dennis Christopher George Potter, playwright, Karaoke, Midnight Movie
1935 Trevor Griffiths, playwright, Absolute Beginners
1935 George P Baker, U.S. playwright (Dramatic Technique), dies at 68
1934 Ronald Harwood, [Horwitz], South African playwright, Dresser
1934 Sonia Sanchez, U.S. playwright and poet, The Bronx is Next
1934 Edward Bond, English playwright/director, Blow-up
1934 Alan Bennett, England, playwright/actor, Secret Policeman's Other Ball
1933 Michael Frayn, English Playwright
1933 David M Storey, British rugby player/playwright, Home
1932 Melvin Van Peebles, U.S., playwright/director, Watermelon Man
1932 Arnold Wesker, British playwright, Bratkartoffeln Inbegriffen
1932 Lady Augusta, [Isabella Gregory], playwright (Gold Apple), dies at 80
1932 Jack Gelber, U.S., playwright, Connection, Apple
1931 Rudolf W. Canne, Fries playwright (Peaske), dies at 60
1931 Arthur Schnitzler, Austrian Playwright
1931 David Belasco, American Playwright
1931 Beverley Cross, playwright
1931 Rolf Hochhuth, German playwright, Deputy
1931 Ernesto Rosenstand, Arubian playwright, Kiko Ta Di Nos?
1931 Vladimir Skutina, writer playwright/journalist
1931 Peter Barnes, English Playwright
1930 John Arden, England, novelist/playwright, Left Handed Liberty
1930 Harold Pinter, born in London, England, playwright, Homecoming, Servant
1930 Lorraine Hansberry, playwright, Raisin in the Sun
1930 Clive Exton, scriptwriter and playwright
1929 John Osborne, England, playwright, Look Back in Anger, Luther-TONY 1964
1929 Hugo Von Hofmannsthal, playwright and poet, dies
1929 Georges Courteline [Moineaux], French playwright, dies
1929 Henry Arthur Jones, English playwright (Silver King), dies at 77
1928 W Gordon Smith, playwright
1928 John B. Keane, Irish Playwright
1928 Frank Ulrich Marcus, playwright/critic
1928 Peter Hacks, German playwright, Tie Windloch
1928 Edward Albee, born in Washington, D.C., playwright, Virgina Woolfe, Zoo Story
1927 Simon Raven, English playwright/critic, Alms for Oblivion
1927 Ann Jellicoe, theater director/playwright, Knack
1927 Neil Simon, Bronx, playwright, Odd Couple, Plaza Suite, Biloxi Blues
1927 James Goldman, author/playwright, Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid
1926 Murray Schisgal, playwright, Luv
1926 Peter T Thwaites, British brig-gen/playwright, Love or money
1926 Beah Richards, born in Vicksburg, Mississippi, actress/playwright, Big Shot, Generation
1926 Anthony Shaffer, twin brother playwright, Sleuth
1926 Peter Shaffer, twin brother playwright, 5 Finger Exercise, Equus
1926 Dario Fo, born in Leggiuno Sangiano, Virginia, playwright, Nobel-1997
1925 Jos Vandeloo, Flemish journalist/playwright, Cola Drinkers
1925 James Saunders, English chemist/playwright, Ark
1924 William Archer, Scottish critic/playwright (Green Goddess), dies at 68
1924 Wolf Mankowitz, British playwright
1924 Robert Oxton Bolt, playwright, Man for All Seasons, Dr. Zhivago
1924 Robert Bolt, British Playwright
1924 Jeffrey Segal, actor and playwright, Vanity Fair, Rest in Pieces
1924 Kobo Abe, born in Tokyo, Japan, playwright, Woman, the Dunes
1924 Nils Kj'r, Norwegian playwright (Det Lykkelige Valg), dies at 53
1924 Arne Garborg, Norwegian playwright (Mannfolk), dies at 72
1923 George Byatt, playwright
1922 George Axelrod, playwright, Breakfast at Tiffany, Bus Stop
1921 Dusty Hughers, playwright
1921 Georges Feydeau, French playwright (Chat and Poche), dies at 58
1921 Friedrich Durrenmatt, Switzerland, playwright/novelist, Visit
1920 Alice Childress, U.S. playwright/actress, Wedding Band
1920 Nestor de Tiere, Flemish playwright (Bride of the Sea), dies
1920 Jeffrey Segal, actor, Traitors, /playwright
1919 Leonid Andreyev, Russian Playwright
1919 Peter Ambrose Cyprian Luke, playwright
1919 Robert Pinget, novelist/playwright
1919 Paul Lindau, German playwright/critic (Estimate), dies at 79
1919 Norman F Simpson, British playwright, One Way Pendulum
1918 Gertrude E Durden Rush, U.S. composer/playwright, dies at 38
1918 Arthur Laurents, born in New York City, playwright, West Side Story, Gypsy
1918 Emiel van der Straeten, [Delrue], Flemish playwright, dies at 30
1918 Caspar MB "Cas" Baas, Dutch actor/playwright/director, Ciske the Rat
1917 Ossie Davis, born in Cogdell, Georgia, actor and playwright, Hot Stuff, Man Called Adam
1917 Herwig Hensen, [Flor Mielants], Flemish poet/playwright
1916 Margaret Hayden Rector, playwright, living legacy award 1995
1916 Stanley Kauffmann, born in New York City, playwright, Red Handkerchief Man
1916 Colin Morris, playwright/documentary filmmaker
1915 Arthur Miller, New York City, playwright, Death of a Salesman, Crucible
1915 Jerome Lawrence, American Playwright
1914 Emmanuel Robles, Algerian-Fren journalist/playwright, Lesson Hauteurs
1914 Marguerite Duras, born in France, novelist and playwright, Sea Wall
1913 Karl Guttmann, Austrian/Neth playwright/director, Albee/Pinter
1913 William M Inge, U.S. playwright, Picnic-Pulitzer 1953
1912 Garson Kanin, born in Rochester, New York, playwright/producer, Double Life
1912 Max Croiset, playwright/director/actor, Dog of Flanders, Little Ark
1912 William Douglas-Home, playwright, Now .. Barabbas
1912 Joseph Stein, dramatist/playwright, Fiddler on the Roof
1911 Diego Fabbri, Italian, playwright/leader, Vatican movie bureau
1911 Terence Rattigan, playwright, Winslow Boy, Browning Version
1911 George Seaton, American Playwright
1911 Tennessee Williams, born in Columbus, Mississippi, playwright, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
1911 Joseph Tomelty, actor and playwright, Bedevilled, Moby Dick, Melba
1910 Georges Schehade, Lebanese poet/playwright, Monsieur Bob'le
1910 Uys Krige, South African playwright/novelist, Orphan of the Desert
1910 Abram Hill, director/playwright/founder, American Negro Theater
1909 Seicho Matsumoto, Dutch Japanese detective/playwright, 10 to Sen
1909 Eugene Ionesco, playwright
1909 Gerald Savory, actor playwright/TV producer, Heart of the Matter
1909 Johannes de Koo, journalist/playwright, dies
1909 Jeroom Verten [Jozef F Vermetten], Flemish playwright
1909 John Millington Synge, Irish dramatist/playwright/poet, dies at 37
1909 Jack Popplewell, composer/playwright
1909 Jan Fabricius, Dutch playwright
1909 Ernest von Wildenbruch, German playwright (Das Edle Blut), dies at 63
1908 William Saroyan, U.S., novelist/playwright, Time of Your Life
1908 Arthur Adamov, Kislovodsk Russia, playwright, Paolo Paoli
1908 Dom Joao G da Camara, Portuguese journalist/playwright, dies at 55
1907 Christopher Fry, Bristol England, playwright, Ring Around the Moon
1907 Lillian Hellman, playwright, Toys in the Attic, Little Foxes
1907 Mary Coyle Chase, playwright, Harvey-Pulitzer Prize
1906 Sidney Kingsley, U.S. playwright, One in White, Darkness at Noon
1906 Sidney Kiescher Kingslei, playwright
1906 Henrik Johan Ibsen, Norwegian playwright (Doll House), dies at 78
1906 Samuel Beckett, French playwright, Waiting for Godot, Nobel 1969
1905 George Emlyn Williams, Wales, actor and playwright, David Copperfield
1904 Moss Hart, born in Bronx, New York, playwright, You Can't Take it With You, Act 1
1904 Edward Chodorov, playwright/director, Story of Louis Pasteur
1902 Vladimir M Kirshon, Russian playwright, Ultimatum Factory,
1902 Vladimir M Kirshon, Russian playwright, Ultimatum Factory,
1902 Nathalie Sarraute, [Cherniak], Russian/French playwright
1901 Odon [Edmund] von Horvath, Hungarian/Austrian playwright
1901 Paul Osborn, playwright, Mornings at 7
1901 Kjeld Abell, Danish playwright/director, Tivoli
1901 James A Herne, [J Aherne], U.S. playwright (Margaret Fleming), dies
1901 John W. Van Duren, playwright, I Remember Mama
1901 Walter E. Schafer, German playwright
1900 Albert Maurice Hackett, playwright/screenwriter
1900 Rudolf Varnlund, Swedish playwright, Heliga Familjen
1900 Vittorio Bersezio, [Carlo Nugelli], Italian playwright, dies at 71
1899 Noel Coward, England, playwright, In Which We Serve-1942 Acad Award
1899 Armand Salacrou, French playwright
1899 Marcel Achard, French screen/playwright, Jean de la Lune
1899 Leonid Maksimovich Leonov, novelist/playwright
1899 Bella Spewack, born in Hungary, playwright, Kiss Me Kate
1898 Bertolt Brecht, Germany, playwright, Mother Courage, composer
1897 Paul Neuhuys, Belgian playwright, Le Canari et le Cerise
1897 Ulrika "Minna" Cant-Johnstown, Finnish playwright, dies at 53
1897 Valentin Katayev, Odessa Ukraine, novelist/playwright, Embezzled
1896 Carl Zuckmayer, German/Swiss/US playwright
1896 Robert Sheriff, playwright, Journey's End
1896 Robert E. Sherwood, American Playwright
1895 Alfred Neumann, German playwright, Devil
1895 Marcel Pagnol, French playwright/director, Marchands de Gloire
1895 Charles MacArthur, American Playwright
1894 Dirk Vansina, Flemish playwright, Verschaeve Gives Evidence
1894 Paul Green, U.S., novelist/playwright, In Abraham's Bosom
1893 August Defresne, Dutch playwright/director, Uninhabited Island
1893 Ben Hecht, New York City, novelist/playwright/screenwriter, Front Page
1893 Russel Crouse, journalist/novelist/playwright, Life with Father
1892 Elmer Rice, New York City, playwright/director/novelist, Pulitzer-Street Scene
1892 Ugo Betti, Italian playwright
1891 Ferdinand Bruckner, [Theodor Tagger], Austrian playwright, Races
1891 Mikhail Bulgakov, Russia, playwright/novelist, Black Snow
1890 Marc Connelly, McKeesport, Pennsylvania, playwright, One Minute Please
1890 Dion Boucicault, Irish/US actor and playwright (Octoroon), dies at 67
1890 Hanns Johst, German Playwright
1890 Dorothy Heyward, New York City, playwright, Porgy
1889 Mikha'il Na'imah, Lebanon, playwright
1889 Ludwig Anzengruber, Austrian playwright, dies at 50
1889 Honore-Gabriel Marcel, French philosopher/playwright
1889 Howard Lindsay, born in Waterford, New York, playwright, actor and director, State of Union
1887 Jo Sternheim, Dutch actor/playwright
1887 Jo Sternheim, Dutch actor and playwright, Fatherland
1887 Jo Sternheim, Dutch actor/playwright
1887 Emiel van der Straeten, Flemish playwright, Sudanese legends
1887 Hesketh Pearson, England, biographer/playwright, Writ for Libel
1887 Robinson Jeffers, U.S., poet/playwright, Tamar and Other Poems, Medea
1886 Fernand Crommelynck, Belgian playwright, Le Cocu Magnificent
1886 John Howard Lawson, scriptwriter/playwright
1886 Hugo Ball, German playwright/co-founder Flametti
1885 Francois Mauriac, France, novelist/poet/playwright, Nobel 1952
1885 Herman Bouber, Dutch actor and playwright, Sailor's Wives
1885 Jules Romains, France, novelist/playwright/poet, Men of Good Will
1885 Edna Ferber, author, playwright
1885 Sacha Guitry, France, actor and playwright, Story of a Cheat
1884 Denys Amiel, French dramatist/playwright, Cafe Tabac
1884 Jo van Ammers-Kuller, playwright, Rebellions
1884 Henri Liebrecht, Belgian playwright/journalist
1884 Hugh S. Walpole, born in NZ, novelist and playwright, Jeremy, Maradick at 40
1884 Yevgeny Zamyatin, Russia, novelist/playwright, We
1883 Cyprian K Norwid, Polish painter, poet and playwright (Wanda), dies
1882 Charles Vildrac, Paris, France, poet/playwright
1882 Jean Giraudoux, born in Bellac, France, playwright, Eglantine, Provinciales
1882 Vincas Kreve-Mickievicius, Lithuania, poet/philologist/playwright
1882 John Drinkwater, English poet/playwright, Abraham Lincoln
1881 Pedro Munoz Seca, Spanish playwright, Vengeanza de Don Mendo
1881 Frederick Leonard Lonsdale, British playwright, Balkan Princess
1880 Sholem Asch, Poland, Yiddish novelist/playwright, Three Cities
1880 Gertrude E Durden Rush, U.S. composer/playwright, Black Girls Burden
1880 Sean O'Casey, born in Ireland, playwright, Playboy of the Western World
1879 Adolf Herckenrath, Flemish playwright and poet, Avondvlam
1878 Eino Leino, Finland, poet/playwright/novelist, Elaman Koreus
1878 Carl Sternheim, German playwright, Hyperion/Tabula Rasa
1878 Ferenc Molnar, Hungarian/US playwright, A Pal Utrai Fiuk
1877 Georgia B D Camp Johnson, U.S., poet/playwright, Autumn Love Cycle
1876 Ian Hay, Scotland, novelist/playwright, PIp, Carrying On
1875 Klaziena "Ina" Boudier-Bakker, Dutch playwright/novelist, Poverty
1875 Edgar Wallace, born in England, novelist, playwright and journalist, Terror
1874 William Somerset Maugham, British Playwright
1874 W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright
1873 Manuel Breton de los Herreros, Span poet/comic playwright, dies at 76
1873 Joaquin Alvarez Quintero, Spanish dramatist/playwright, Los Galeotes
1872 Franz Grillparzer, Austrian playwright (Sappho/Libussa), dies at 81
1871 Leonid Andreyev, Russian Playwright
1871 Serafin Alvarez Quintero, Spanish dramatist/playwright, El Flechazo
1870 Rudolf W. Canne, Fries playwright, Der de Wier Us
1870 Nils Kjaer, Norwegian playwright, Det evige Savn
1870 Prosper Merimee, French playwright (Carmen), dies at 66
1869 Ramon M del Valle-Inclan, Spanish playwright, Corte de Amor
1869 Emile Fabre, France, playwright, administrator of Comedie Franeaise
1868 Edmond Rostand, born in France, poet and playwright, Cyrano de Bergerac
1868 Constance Gore-booth Markiewicy, Irish patriot/playwright/MP
1867 Arnold Bennett, England, novelist/playwright/critic, Great Babylon
1867 Valere-Gille, Belgian playwright, La Corbeille d'Octobre
1866 Tristan Bernard, French Playwright
1866 Jacinto Benavente y Martinez, Spanish playwright, Nobel 1922
1866 George P. Baker, U.S. playwright, 47 Workshop
1866 George Ade, U.S., journalist/playwright/humorist, Fables in Slang
1865 Laurence Housman, England, author/playwright, Victoria Regina
1864 Thomas Dixon, U.S. attorney/playwright, Flaming Sword
1862 Georges Feydeau, French playwright, La Dame de Chez Maxim's
1862 Eden Phillpotts, England, novelist/poet/playwright, Red Madymaynes
1862 Arthur Schnitzler, Austria, playwright/novelist, La Ronde
1860 James M. Barrie, British Playwright
1860 Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Tagarov Russia, playwright, Cherry Orchard
1859 Maurice Donnay, French playwright, Lovers
1858 Vladimir Nemirovitch-Dantshenko, playwright, Life in Russian Theater
1858 Georges Courteline, [Moineaux], French playwright
1858 Eugene Brieux, French playwright, Blanchette, Lesson Avaries
1855 Arthur Wing Pinero, British playwright
1855 Mary Russell Mitford, Engl playwright and poet (Julian), dies at 67
1853 David Belasco, American Playwright
1852 John Howard Payne, actor and playwright (Fair Warning), dies
1852 Augusta Gregory, born in Ireland, playwright and poet, Yates mistress
1852 Isabella Gregory, born in Ireland, writer and playwright, Golden Apple
1852 [James] Burner Matthews, U.S. playwright/critic, New York Times
1852 Nikolai Gogol, Russian playwright (Dead Soles), dies
1852 Hamid Abdulhak, Istanbul, Turkish romantic poet/playwright
1852 Ion Luca Caragiale, Romanian actor and playwright, O Noapte Furtunoasa
1851 Henry Arthur Jones, English playwright, Judah
1851 Indrid Einarsson, Iceland playwright, Nyjarsnottin
1851 Arne Garborg, Norwegian playwright, Bondestudentar
1850 Ivan Vazov, Bulgaria, poet and novelist /playwright, Under the Yoke
1848 [Francois-Victor-]Jean Aicard, Fren playwright and poet, Jeune Croyances
1846 Oscar Hammerstein, Germany, opera/playwright, Kohinoor
1845 Ernest von Wildenbruch, German playwright, Sedan
1844 Minna Canth, Finland, novelist/playwright, social evils
1844 Ulrika "Minna" Cant-Johnstown, Finnish playwright, Kovan onnen lapsia
1839 Ludwig Anzengruber, Austrian playwright, Der Schandfleck
1839 Paul Lindau, German playwright/critic, Der Herr im Hause
1839 James A. Herne, [J Aherne], U.S. playwright, Hearts of Oak
1837 Georg Buchner, German playwright (Leonce und Lena), dies at 23
1832 Jose Echegaray y Elizaguirre, playwright and scientist, Teatro Escogido
1829 Thomas William Robertson, England, playwright, Caste
1828 Henrik Ibsen, born in Norway, playwright, Peer Gynt, Hedda Gabler
1828 Vittorio Bersezio, [Carlo Nugelli], Italian playwright
1824 Alexandre Dumas, born in France, playwright/novelist, Camille
1823 Aleksandr Ostrovsky, Russian playwright, Artists and Admirers
1823 Zacharius Werner, German playwright, dies at 36
1822 Dion Boucicault, Irish/Us actor and playwright, Rip van Winkle
1821 Cyprian K Norwid, Polish painter, poet and playwright, Wanda
1820 Hermann von Lingg, German playwright and poet
1818 Ivan Turgenev, Russia, novelist/poet/playwright, Fathers and Sons,
1818 Ivan Turgenev, Russia, novelist/poet/playwright, Fathers and Sons,
1816 Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish Playwright
1816 Richard Sheridan, Irish Playwright
1815 Eugene-Marin Labiche, French playwright
1813 Georg Buchner, German playwright, Dantons Tod/Woyzeck
1811 Heinrich W von Kleist, German playwright, dies at 34
1805 Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, poet/playwright, dies at 45
1804 Francisco marquis Albergati Capacelli, Italian playwright, dies at 75
1803 Prosper Merimee, Paris, France, playwright, Carmen
1803 Douglas William Jerrold, London, author/playwright/wit, Punch Mag
1802 Eduard von Bauernfeld, Vienna, comedic playwright
1799 Joao Batista da Silva Leitao de Almeida Garret, Portuguese playwright
1798 Karl von Holtei, Silezian actor and playwright, Die Vagabunden
1796 Manuel Breton de los Herreros, Quel Spain, poet/comic playwright
1794 George Colman, the Elder, playwright, dies
1794 Sebastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort, Fr playwright, commits suicide at 53
1794 Ramon de la Cruz, Spanish playwright/translator, dies at 62
1792 John Burgoyne, soldier/playwright, dies
1781 Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Saxon playwright/critic, dies
1778 Playwright Voltaire crowned with laurel wreath
1770 Domingos dos Reis Quita, Portuguese playwright and poet, dies at 42
1758 Johann F von Cronegk, German playwright (Codrus), dies at 26
1756 Pieter Langendijk, painter/etcher/playwright, dies at 72
1752 Friedrich M Klinger, German playwright, Wirrwarr
1751 Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish Playwright
1751 Richard Sheridan, Irish Playwright
1743 Richard Savage, English poet/playwright, dies at about 46
1743 Pedro de Peralta y Barnuevo, Peruvian playwright and poet, dies
1741 Sebastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort, French playwright, Maximes
1732 George Colman, "the Elder", playwright, baptised
1732 Pierre de Baumarchais, France, playwright, Barber of Seville
1731 Johann F von Cronegk, German playwright, Olint und Sophronia
1731 Ramon de la Cruz, Spanish playwright/interpreter
1728 Francisco Albergati Capacelli, Italian playwright
1728 Domingos dos Reis Quita, Portuguese playwright and poet
1726 John Vanbrugh, Dutch/English playwright (Provoked Wife), dies at 62
1725 Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Jap playwright (Yotsugi Soga), dies at about 71
1721 Abraham Alewijn, poet/playwright (Beslikte Swaantje), dies at 36
1715 Nahum Tate, English poet/playwright/poet laureate, dies
1707 Carlo Goldoni, Italy, lawyer/playwright, Belisario, Love of 3 Oranges
1700 John Dryden, English poet/playwright (Rival Ladies), dies
1699 Jean Racine, French playwright (Phedre), dies at 59
1688 Philippe Quinault, French playwright (L'amant Indiscreet), dies at 53
1685 Aaron Hill, English playwright and poet, Tragedy of Zara
1684 Abraham Alewijn, Dutch poet/playwright, Puiterveense Helleveeg
1683 Pieter Langendijk, painter/etcher/playwright, Wiskunstenaars
1674 Jan Zoet, actor/playwright/poet (Brutal-Roffel), dies at 58
1673 Moliere, French Playwright
1671 Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, French playwright and poet, Sacred Odes and Songs
1670 Honorat de Brueil seigneur de Racan, French playwright, dies at 80
1654 Giambattista Andreini, Italian playwright/actor, dies at 76
1652 Thomas Otway, England, playwright and poet, Venice Preserved
1647 Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, poet/playwright (Warenar), dies at about 65
1639 Juan R Alarcon y Mendoza, Mexican/Spanish playwright, dies at 58
1638 Antoinette du Ligier de la Guard Deshoulieres, French poet/playwright
1637 Ben Johnson, dramatist/playwright, dies at 65
1635 Lope Felix de Vega, playwright and poet (Angelica, Arcadia), dies at 72
1635 Lope de Vega, Spanish Playwright
1635 Philippe Quinault, French playwright, L'amant indiscret
1631 John Dryden, English poet/playwright, Heroic Stanzas
1625 Thomas Corneille, French playwright
1622 Moliere, French Playwright
1619 Cyrano de Bergerac, famous nose, playwright, Voyage to the Moon
1618 Gerbrant A Bredero, poet/playwright (Moortje), dies at 33
1616 Francis Beaumont, Elizabethan playwright, dies (birth date unknown)
1615 Jan Zoet, actor, playwright and poet, Parnasssus aan 't Y
1612 Thomas Killigrew, English humorist/playwright/leader, King's Men
1610 Paul Scarron, French playwright, Virgile Travesti
1607 Francisco de Rojas Zorrilla, Span playwright, Del Rey Abajo Ninguno
1595 Torquato Tasso, Italian poet/playwright, dies at 51
1589 Honorat de Brueil seigneur de Racan, French playwright and poet
1585 Gerbrant A. Bredero, Holland, poet/playwright, Klucht van de Koe
1584 Tobias Stimmer, Swiss painter/cartoonist/playwright, dies at 44
1582 Playwright and poet William Shakespeare weds Anne Hathaway
1580 Thomas Middleton, English playwright, Game of Chess
1578 Giambattista Andreini, Italian playwright/actor, L'adamo
1574 Samuel Coster, Dutch physician/playwright, Polyxena
1572 Ben Jonson, England, playwright and poet, Volpone, Alchemist
1567 Marin Drzic, Croatian playwright (Dundo Maroje), dies
1564 William Shakespeare, Stratford-on-Avon England, playwright, Hamlet
1562 Lope de Vega, Spanish Playwright
1495 John Bale, England, bishop/anti-catholic playwright, Kynge Johan
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